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I love it! And I’ll do you one better: US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, for all his faults (which are numerous), supported the 5-4 majority in a landm
by ralmidani 3y ago
I love it!
And I’ll do you one better:
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, for all his faults (which are numerous), supported the 5-4 majority in a landmark case regarding flag burning.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Johnson https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Johnson
Imagine if Justice William Brennan, who wrote the majority opinion, said to Scalia rudely and dismissively “you don’t really believe in civil liberties, you’re only an absolutist on free speech”. It could have led to it being illegal today to burn the flag (which I don’t approve of on a personal level) - and presumably many other ways of expressing disapproval with how the US government conducts itself.